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degeneration noun

  /dɪˌdʒɛnəˈɹeɪʃən/
  • (uncountable, countable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
  • (uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
 degenerazione

degenerate adjective

  /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪt/<q:verb> , /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/
  • (of a person or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities; hence also having bad character or habits, base, immoral, corrupt.
 degenerato, scellerato, snaturato
  • (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to undesirable and typically abnormal.
 snaturato

degenerate verb

  /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹeɪt/<q:verb> , /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/
  • (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.
 degenerare
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